[lug] Gparted doesn't recognize new USB drive

[Jed S. Baer]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 13:06:46 -0700
Maxwell Spangler wrote:

> Can we see the output of 
> 
> $ lsblk

It doesn't show up there at all, nor in the output of fdisk -l.

In particular, "sudo lsblk -O /dev/sde" doesn't show any output at all.

It is present:
$ ls -l /dev/sde
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 64 Mar 12 12:01 /dev/sde

All my /dev/sd block devices are in group "disk".

So, I plugged in a known working stick. What's now interesting is the lack,
in the kernel messages for the new one, of something like this:

Product: USB 3.0 FD
usb 2-4.3: Manufacturer: PNY Technologies
usb 2-4.3: SerialNumber: AA67192670013655

IOW, the USB subsystem apparently doesn't know enough about it to operate
on it. That's my hypothesis. Maybe, in addition to seeing it as USB mass
storage, it needs to know something about the chip, which it can't figure
out. This might in fact point to a defective unit. Bad vendor ID or
something like that.

Looking up the Vendor/Product, I find a Kingston "SP Mobile C31 (64GB)".
Phillips might repackage Kingston, but there's a size mismatch.
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